Foundations of Effective Leadership

📋 Course Outline

1. Trait and Great Man leadership theories
2. Dark Triad traits and leadership risk
3. Behavioural leadership task and relationship
4. Leadership Grid and best style 9,9
5. Situational Leadership directive and supportive styles
6. Competency model skills and leadership functions
7. Implicit Leadership Theory and followership
8. Emergent shared and distributed leadership
9. Servant leadership and follower wellbeing
10. Authentic leadership trust and balanced processing
11. Transformational leadership Four I’s factors
12. Strengths-based leadership and signature strengths

📖 1. Trait and Great Man leadership theories

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Trait leadership theory : Trait leadership theory links leadership to relatively stable personal characteristics that shape how a person thinks, feels, and behaves across situations.
• Trait : A trait is a consistent pattern in how someone tends to think, feel, and behave over time and across different situations.
• Great Man theory : Great Man theory treats leadership as something people are born with, where exceptional leaders naturally show heroic qualities.
• Leadership emergence : Leadership emergence is the process by which some individuals become recognized as leaders by others in a group or organization.

📝 Essential Points